Did you ever wonder what your favorite books say about you? Did you ever feel guilty for all the classics you didn’t read in school and haven’t taken the time to read as an adult? Do you want to learn how to discuss books you haven’t read at a cocktail party? Lauren Leto, “Texts from Last Night” blogger and shameless Janet Evanovich fan takes readers on a journey through book culture examined book lover’s quirks, touching on subjects such as rules for public reading, what the titles and objects on your bookshelves say about you and how to speak condescendingly about books such as Moby Dick and Ulysses (“Seven hundred pages of plotless onanism stylistic indulgence.” Leto intersperses her observations with personal anecdotes (misspelling the word spaghetti with a “y” at the end in a spelling bee) making an enjoyable and readable love story to books and their readers, bookcats (in a chapter campaigning to have the nickname bookworm changed to the more appropriate feline name).
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